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Show Ng Bs IN CRATE 63 HOURS ~ ee ha self shipped ‘said an empty (AP) had him- wooden big enough to hold was found today at home c.o.d. from Britain in a wooden crate because he couldn't afford a cargo depot in crate a man the air Perth. Sent pic team = = berth in trials but | when he landed more than 215 failed and, because he was - days later at Perth. broke, seized on the idea of DUMPED IN SHED flying home in the crate. Spiers said “The crate was | passenger ticket for the 11,000- c.o.d., it was consigned to a nonexistent shoe factory at a. - _-He gave notice to Air India dumped in a shed and after a few hours I decided to break nonexistent blood runs cold when that he wanted to consign a out.” crate of plastic emulsion to a I think of the terrible risks he Perth firm. He said he climbed inside the box Oct. 17 and friends drove him to the airport. He crawled out dizzy and weak, he said. After resting mile flight. Reginald Spiers, 22, of Ade| Jaide, spent 63 hours in the | slatted box without food “My or | water, Sydney newspapers re- address. ran,’ the spokesman the — “The cargo could have ‘| ported. Friends and relatives in Adelaide story today. The confirmed accounts said offloaded and left in some tropical depot over a week- a friend end. Or he | nailed up the box Oct. 17 in An Air India been en route and thrown into jail. Or he could have been packed with other freight and suffocated, Or the pressurization in the cargo 1,800 miles to Adelaide. -| out,” he said. could have discovered London and Spiers landed at Perth Oct. 20 on an Air India flight, then hitchhiked SPACE FOR AIR “There was enough space between the planks to give me air and alow me to peep | said. been — hold might have failed.” Sydney newspapers. said Spiers, a 170-pound javelin thrower, worked his way to London ‘by ship in hopes of spokesman - winning an Australian ea DRIVEN TO AIRPORT The crate, 5 feet long and 3 feet wide, was big enough to allow him to sit up with his legs stretched out and tight enough to prevent his being tossed about. At Bombay, out he was taken on a forklift, then held aloft, manhandled. ‘into another Boeing 707 ‘“‘and soon we were flying again.” “This big Spiers | one’s for us,” heard | ‘someone Re) a a say awhile, through he cut his a wire mesh and hitchhiked home eet Australia pork S Y DNEY, i An ‘sive hae Flies | Home CO. D. peed ~ Athlete To EN ay way door to his wife and daughter in time to attend a brother’s wedding. _ Spiers said the crate sith him inside weighed about 500 pounds and the freight charge was about $950. That is $280 more than the passenger fare, but passengers can’t travel | | C04: “As far as | know, no _ freight payment has been col- lected on this consignment, e said the Air India ices asap f |
